#ASEchat with Alom Shaha investigates the challenges of practical work

#ASEchat with Alom Shaha investigates the challenges of practical work

12 July 2013

This complex topic raised much passionate debate on ASE's twitter community #ASEchat. Hosted by physics teachers, science communicator and film-maker, Alom Shaha this #ASEchat raised lots of interesting opinions and linked to some fantastic resources for science teachers, attracting over 500 tweets in a single hour. The chat covered a whole host of issues including fulfilling pupil and parent expectations on what science is about, providing motivation and engagement in learning and showing young people what it means to be a scientist. As a forum for debate, #ASEchat also raised counter points highlighting the difficulty in finding evidence that practical work contributes to learning in science. There emerged a clear sense from this #ASEchat that practical work needs to be defended against pressures from outside the science teaching community.

Topics for further debate

How practical work is used in other countries including the baccalaureate (alex brovvn 19.34)

Computer modeling and its importance in science (mwnm 19.42)

About #ASEchat

Join us every Monday between 8-9pm on twitter using #ASEchat, where we will be debating some of these topics in future. #ASEchat often invites special guest hosts and tries to provide a platform to voice ideas for science teachers. Find out more.

About Alom

Alom Shaha is a Physics teacher at a comprehensive school in London. He is also a film-maker, writer and science communicator. He has written, produced and directed a number of TV programmes about science, ranging in subject matter from particle physics to mathematics, and worked in various other roles on TV series ranging from Horizon to What the Victorians Did for Us to Science Shack. He has done some TV presenting, performed live science shows and regularly speak at public events.